“They are just checking people don’t try to cross (the border). But you don’t see drugs going across here or anything like that… There must be another way to cross,” he said.
US Marines have also been seen unrolling barbed wire to strengthen the border fence since Trump took office.
The Republican ordered the deployment of 1,500 additional soldiers to the frontier, declaring a “national emergency.”
Araceli Lopez, a restaurant worker, had a front-row view of the marines’ work, which took place in front of her home along the border fence.
“They are here welding, putting up barbed wire. They have been here for four days now, and it’s so noisy,” the 35-year-old said, adding that she opposed Trump’s migration policies.
“We Mexicans are hard-working. We go (to the United States) in search of a better life,” Lopez said.
“They don’t see it that way. But the truth is we only go there to work.”
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